Born on this day – Memphis Minnie:

Memphis Minnie

Blues singer

Guitarist

Songwriter

June 3, 1897 – August 6, 1973

Credits:

Songs:

A Little Too Late; After While Blues; Ain't No Use Tryin' to Tell On Me (I Know Something on You); Ain't Nobody Home but Me; Bad Outside Friends; Ball and Chain Blues; Banana Man Blues; Beat It Right; Black Cat Blues; Black Rat Swing; Black Widow Stinger; Blue Monday Blues; Blues Everywhere; Botherin' That Thing; Boy Friend Blues; Broken Heart; Bumble Bee; Call the Fire Wagon; Can I Do It for You; Can't Afford to Lose My Man; Caught Me Wrong Again; Cherry Ball Blues; Chickasaw Train Blues (Low Down Dirty Thing); Conjur Man; Crazy Cryin' Blues; Daybreak Blues; Dirty Dauber Blues; Dirty Mother for You; Doctor, Doctor Blues; Don't Lead My Baby Wrong; Don't Turn the Card; Don't Want No Woman; Down by the Riverside; Down Home Girl; Down in New Orleans; Down in the Alley; Dragging My Heart Around; Drunken Barrel House Blues; Ethel Bea; Fashion Plate Daddy; Fingerprint Blues; Fish Man Blues; Fishin' Blues; Frankie Jean (That Trottin' Fool); 'Frisco Town; Garage Fire Blues; Georgia Skin; Give It to Me in My Hand (Can I Go Home with You); Goin' Back to Texas; Good Biscuits; Good Morning; Good Soppin'; Got to Leave You No. 1; Got to Leave You No. 2; Grandpa and Grandma Blues; Has Anyone Seen My Man?; He's in the Ring (Doing That Same Old Thing); Hold Me Blues; Hole in the Wall; Hoodoo Lady; Hot Stuff; Hustlin' Woman Blues; I Am Sailin'; I Called You This Morning; I Don't Want No Woman I Have to Give My Money To; I Don't Want That Junk Outa You; I Don't Want You No More; I Got To Make a Change Blues; I Hate to See the Sun Go Down; I Hope Love Will Change Some Day; I Never Told a Lie; Ice Man Blues; Ice Man (Come On Up); I'd Rather See Him Dead; If You See My Rooster (Please Run Him Home); I'm a Bad Luck Woman; I'm a Gambling Woman; I'm Going Back Home; I'm Going Don't You Know; I'm Gonna Bake My Biscuits; I'm Not a Bad Gal; I'm So Glad; I'm Talking About You; I'm Waiting On You; I'm Wild About My Stuff; In Love Again; In My Girlish Days; It Was You, Baby; It's Hard to Be Mistreated; It's Hard to Please My Man; I've Been Treated Wrong; Jailhouse Trouble Blues; Jockey Man Blues; Joe Louis Strut; Joliet Bound; Jump Little Rabbit; Keep It to Yourself; Keep On Eatin'; Keep On Goin'; Keep On Sailin'; Keep Your Big Mouth Shut; Kid Man Blues; Kind Treatment Blues; Killer Diller Blues; Killer Diller from the South; Kissing in the Dark; Lake Michigan; Lean Meat Won't Fry; Let Me Ride; Let's Go to Town; Living the Best I Can; Long As I Can See You Smile; Look What You Got; Looking the World Over; Lonesome Shack Blues; Love Come and Go; Low Down Man Blues; Ma Rainey; Man, You Won't Give Me No Money; Me and My Chauffeur Blues; Mean Mistreater Blues; Memphis Minnie-Jitis Blues; Meningitis Blues; Million Dollar Blues; Moaning the Blues; Moonshine; Mr. Tango Blues; My Baby Don't Want Me No More; My Black Buffalo; My Butcher Man; My Gage Is Going Up; My Man Is Gone Again; My Mary Blues; My Strange Man; My Wash Woman's Gone; New Bumble Bee Blues; New Caught Me Wrong Again; New Dirty Dozen; New Orleans Stop Time; Night Watchmen Blues; North Memphis Blues; Nothing in Rambling; Oh, Believe Me; Out in the Cold; Pickin' the Blues; Pig Meat on the Line; Pile Driving Blues; Please Don't Stop Him; Please Set a Date; Plymouth Rock Blues; Poor and Wandering Woman Blues; Preacher's Blues; Reachin' Pete; Remember Me Blues; Running and Dodging Blues; Selling My Pork Chops; She Put Me Outdoors; She Wouldn't Give Me None; Shout the Boogie; Soo Cow Soo; Squat It; Stinging Snake Blues; Stop Lying to Me; Sweet Man; Sylvester and His Mule Blues; That Will Be Allright; The Man I Love; The Saint; This Is Your Last Chance Baby; Three Times Seven Blues; Today Today Blues; Tonight I Smile with You; Too Late; True Love; Walking and Crying Blues; Wants Cake When I'm Hungry; Weary Woman's Blues; Western Union; What a Night; What Fault You Find of Me? Part 1; What Fault You Find of Me? Part 2; What's the Matter with the Mill?; When My Man Comes Home; When the Levee Breaks; When the Saints Go Marching Home; When the Sun Goes Down; When You Love Me; When You're Asleep; Where Is My Good Man; Why Did I Make You Cry; World of Trouble; Worried Baby Blues; You Can't Give It Away; You Got to Get Out of Here; You Got to Move; You Need a Friend; You Wrecked My Happy Home.

Albums:

"The Queen of the Blues": 1929–1941; 1930–1941; 1934–1941; 1941–1949; Blues Classics by Memphis Minnie; Complete Recorded Works 1935–1941 in Chronological Order, vol. 1, 10 January to 31 October 1935; Early Recordings with Kansas Joe McCoy, vol. 2; Hoodoo Lady (1933–1937); Hot Stuff: 1936–1949; I Ain't No Bad Gal; In My Girlish Days; In My Girlish Days: 1930–1935; Let's Go to Town; Love Changin' Blues: 1949, Blind Willie McTell and Memphis Minnie; Me and My Chauffeur Blues; Moaning the Blues; Night Time Blues, Ma Rainey and Memphis Minnie; Pickin' the Blues; Queen of the Blues; The Rough Guide to Memphis Minnie - Queen of the Country Blues; World of Trouble.

Born on this day – Kansas Joe McCoy:

Kansas Joe McCoy

Blues singer

Musician

Songwriter

May 11, 1905 – January 28, 1950

Credits:

Songs:

Botherin' That Thing; Delta Bound; Evil devil woman blues; Hey Hey Loretta; Hoodoo Women; If You Take Me Back; If You're a Viper; I'm Going Back Home; Joliet Bound; Lake Providence Blues; Let's Get Drunk and Truck; Let'sTry It Again; Look Who's Coming Down The Road; Meat Cutter Blues; Motherless and Fatherless Blues; My Babe, My Babe; My Garbage Man; Oh! Red; Pile Driver Blues; Pile Drivin' Blues; Root Hog or Die; That will be alright; That'll Be Alright; The Candy Man; The World Is a Hard Place to Live In; Time A-Wastin'; Twenty Minutes To Hell; Well, Well; Wet It; When the Levee Breaks; Why Don’t You Do Right; You Done Tore Your Pants With me.

Born on this day – Ted Bogan:

Ted Bogan

Blues singer

Guitarist

Songwriter

May 10, 1909 – January 29, 1990

Credits:

Albums:

Louie Bluie (1978); Martin, Bogan, and Armstrong (1974); That Old Gang of Mine (1978).

Documentary:

Louie Bluie (1985).

Born on this day – Robert Johnson:

Robert Johnson

Blues singer

Guitarist

Harmonic player

Songwriter

May 8, 1911 – August 16, 1938

Credits:

Album:

Robert Johnson: The Centennial Collection (2011).

Movies, video and television:

11.6 (2013); Abraxas, Guardian of the Universe (1990); American Epic (2017); Among Giants (1998); Animal House of Blues: How a Community Helped Create a Hollywood Blockbuster or Two (2012); B.B. King: The Life of Riley (2012); Bank Roll (2012); Baseball (1994); Beat the Devil (2002); Bluesland: A Portrait in American Music (1993); Boys on the Side (1995); Cadillac Records (2008); Chocolat (2000); Crepuscular Suburban Blues (2009); Crossroads (1986); CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2009); Dancing with the Stars (2007); Danville 2nd Ward Young Men (2010); Dark (2017); Deep Water (2022); Desperate Man Blues (2003); Dickey Betts & Great Southern: Back Where It All Begins - Live at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame + Museum (2005); Die Harald Schmidt Show (1995); Down Terrace (2009); EarthBound (1994); Elementary (2013); Employee of the Month (2004); Eric Clapton & Friends in Concert: A Benefit for the Crossroads Centre at Antigua (1999); Eric Clapton and Friends (1988); Eric Clapton: Life in 12 Bars (2017); Eric Clapton: Sessions for Robert J (2004); Eric Clapton: Standing at the Crossroads (2021); For the Boys (1991); Freaks and Geeks (1999); Fringe (2009); Get on Up (2014); Ghosts of Mississippi (1996); Gimme Shelter (1970); Great Performances (2005); Greenleaf (2017); Grudge Match (2013); Guardami (1999); Guitar Hero (2005); Guitar Man (2015); Holes (2003); Hounddog (2007); I Am Not Okay with This (2020); iBrain (2013); Kings of the Road (1976); Kopps (2003); Ladies and Gentlemen: The Rolling Stones (1973); Late Show with David Letterman (2011); Led Zeppelin (2003); Led Zeppelin: Travelling Riverside Blues (1990); Life on Mars (2007); Luck (2011); Luther (2013); Matlock (1989); Misfits (2010–2011); Music High Classroom (2012); Not Fade Away (2012); Patti Cake$ (2017); Phoenix (1998); Post Mortem (1999); Power (2015); Pump Up the Volume (1990); Red Tails (2012); Rush: R30 (2005); Saturday Night Live (1991–1995); Scratch (2001); SeaChange (1998–1999); Sid Meier's Railroads! (2006); Soap&Skin: Me and the Devil (2015); Starbuck in Rock Concert (1973); Stoned (2005); Suck (2009); Supernatural (2006); Sweet Talk (2015); The Blues (2003); The Blues Brothers (1980); The Cream of Eric Clapton (1990); The Demons (2015); The Downbeat (2010); The Ed Sullivan Show (1969); The Five Devils (2022); The Good Wife (2014); The Jeff Healey Band: Live at Montreux 1999 (2005); The Last Summer (2019); The Man Who Fell to Earth (2022); The Missing (2014); The Music Never Stopped (2011); The Perfect Age of Rock 'n' Roll (2009); The Search for Robert Johnson (1992); The Secret Policeman's Other Ball (1982); The Skeleton Key (2005); The Stones in the Park (1969); The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (2010); The Wolf of Wall Street (2013); Thunderground (1989); Tu cara me suena - Argentina (2015); Two Trains Runnin' (2016); Under the Rainbow (2013); Unplugged (1992); When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder? (1979); Where the Road Runs Out (2014); Whiskey Tango Foxtrot (2016); Wild West Comedy Show: 30 Days & 30 Nights - Hollywood to the Heartland (2006).

Born on this day – Bumble Bee Slim:

Bumble Bee Slim

Blues singer

Guitarist

May 7, 1905 – June 8, 1968

Albums:

12 O clock Southern Train (2014); Aching Pain Blues (2023); Back in Town (2013); Bumble Bee Slim Vol. 5 1935-1936 (2005); Bumble Bee Slim Vol. 6 1936 (2005); Bumble Bee Slim Vol. 8 1937-1951 (2005); Bumble Bee Slim Vol. 9 (1934-1951) (2005); Chain Gang Bound (2015); From Georgia to Chicago 1931-1937 (1998); Got the Blues (2011); Greasy Greens And Blues (2012); Instinctively the Blues (2020); Jazz Figures (1934 -1935) Volume 3 (2011); Jazz Figures (1934) Volume 2 (2011); Jazz Figures (1935 - 1936) Volume 5 (2011); The Piedmont Blues (2024).

Born on this day – Cora Mae Bryant:

Cora Mae Bryant

Blues singer

Guitarist

May 1, 1926 – October 30, 2008

Credits:

Albums:

Born with the Blues (2001); Born in Newton County (2003).

Born on this day – Shirley Griffith:

Shirley Griffith

Blues singer

Guitarist

April 26, 1907 – June 18, 1974

Credits:

Mississippi Blues (1973); The Blues of J. T. Adams and Shirley Griffith: Indiana Ave. Blues (1964); The Blues of Shirley Griffith: Saturday Blues (1965).

Book references:

Blues: A Regional Experience (Greenwood Guides to American Roots Music) 1st Edition, by Eric LeBlanc (2013); The Guinness Who's Who of Blues, by Colin Larkin (1995).

Born on this day – Doctor Clayton:

Doctor Clayton

Blues singer

Songwriter

April 19, 1898 – January 7, 1947

Credits:

Albums:

Angels in Harlem (2002); Complete Recorded Works (1935–1942) (1994); Doctor Clayton & His Buddies: Complete Recordings 1946 & 1947 (1994); Doctor Clayton and His Buddy (1935–1947) (1989); Doctor Clayton and His Buddy: Pearl Harbour Blues (1970); Gotta Find My Baby (1987).

Born on this day – Bessie Smith:

Bessie Smith

"Empress of the Blues"

Blues singer

April 15, 1894 – September 26, 1937

Credits:

Albums and songs:

A Good Man Is Hard to Find; After You've Gone; Aggravatin' Papa; Alexander's Ragtime Band; Any Woman's Blues; Baby Doll; Baby Won't You Please Come Home; Back Water Blues; Beale Street Mama; Bessie Smith Album (1938); Black Mountain Blues; Bleeding Hearted Blues; Blue Blues; Blue Spirit Blues; Boweavil Blues; Bye Bye Blues; Careless Love Blues; Careless Love; Cemetery Blues; Chicago Bound Blues; Cold in Hand Blues; Devil's Gonna Git You; Dirty No Gooder's Blues; Dixie Flyer Blues; Don't Cry Baby; Down Hearted Blues; Downhearted Blues; Dyin' by The Hour; Dying Gambler's Blues; Easy Come Easy Go Blues; Eavesdropper Blues; Empress of the Blues (1940); Empress of the Blues, Vol. II (1947); Empty Bed Blues Pt1; Empty Bed Blues Pt2; Empty Bed Blues; Far Away Blues; Florida Bound Blues; Follow the Deal on Down; Foolish Man Blues; Frankie Blues; Frosty Mornin' Blues; Gin House Blues; Golden Rule Blues; Graveyard Dream Blues; Gulf Coast Blues; Hard Driving Papa; Hard Time Blues; Hateful Blues; Haunted House Blues; He's Gone Blues; He's Got Me Goin'; Homeless Blues; Honey Man Blues; Hot Springs Blues; House Rent Blues; Hustlin' Dan; I Ain't Goin' to Play No Second Fiddle; I Ain't Gonna Play No Second Fiddle; I Ain't Got Nobody; I Used to Be Your Sweet Mama; I Want Every Bit of It; I'd Rather be Dead and Buried in my Grave; If You Don't, I Know Who Will; I'm Going Back to My Used to Be; I'm Wild About that Thing; In the House Blues; It Makes My Love Come Down; It Won't Be You; I've Been Mistreated and I Don't Like It; I've Got What It Takes; J.C.Holmes Blues; Jail House Blues; Jazzbo Brown from Memphis Town; Keep It to Yourself; Keeps on A Rainin All Time; Lady Luck Blues; Lock and Key Blues; Lonesome Desert Blues; Long Old Road; Lookin' for My Man Blues; Lost Your Head Blues; Louisiana Low Down Blues; Love Me Daddy Blues; Mama's Got the Blues; Me and My Gin; Mean Old Bed Bug Blues; Midnight Blues; Mistreatin' Daddy; Moan Mourners; Money Blues; Moonshine Blues; Mountain Top Blues; Muddy Water; My Kitchen Man; My Man Blues; My Sweetie Went Away; Nashville Women's Blues; Need a Little Sugar in My Bowl; New Gulf Coast Blues; New Orleans Hop Scop Blues; Nobody in Town Can Bake a Jelly Roll Like My Man; Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out; Nobody's Blues but Mine; Oh Daddy Blues; On Revival Day; One and Two Blues; Outside of That; Pickpocket Blues; Pinchbacks, Take 'em Away; Please Help Me Get Him Off My Mind; Poor Man's Blues; Preachin' the Blues; Put It Right Here; Rainy Weather Blues; Reckless Blues; Red Mountain Blues; Rocking Chair Blues; Safety Mama; Salt Water Blues; Sam Jones' Blues; Send Me to the 'Lectric Chair; Shipwreck Blues; Sinful Blues; Sing Sing Prison Blues; Slow and Easy Man; Sobbin' Hearted Blues; Soft Pedal Blues; Sorrowful Blues; Spider Man Blues; Squeeze Me; St Louis Blues; St Louis Gal; Standin' in The Rain Blues; Sweet Mistreater; Tain't Nobody's Bizness if I Do; T'ain't Nobody's Biz-Ness if I Do; Take It Right Back; The Bessie Smith Story, in 4 Volumes (1951); The St. Louis Blues; Them Has Been Blues; Them's Graveyard Words; There'll Be a Hot Time in Old Town Tonight; Thinking Blues; Ticket Agent Easy Your Window Down; Trombone Cholly; Washwoman's Blues; Wasted Life Blues; Weeping Willow Blues; What's the Matter Now?; Whoa, Tillie, Take Your Time; Woman's Trouble Blues; Work House Blues; Worn out Papa Blues; Yellow Dog Blues; Yes Indeed He Do; Yodeling Blues; You Don't Understand; You Ought to be Ashamed; Young Woman's Blues; You've Been a Good Ole Wagon; You've Got to Give Me Some.

Movies and television:

...and Beautiful II (1970); 7T3 (1988); A Good Man (2014); A Huey P. Newton Story (2001); All You Need Is Love (1977); American Masters (1989); Àngel Casas Show (1985); Angel Heart (1987); Arena (1993); Bessie (2015); Bessie Smith (1969); Billie (2019); BioShock Infinite (2013); Black Music in America: From Then Till Now (1971); Blues Masters (1999); Blues Odyssey (2003); Bluesland: A Portrait in American Music (1993); Boardwalk Empire (2012); Brother Can You Spare a Dime (1975); Brown Sugar (1986); Carbon Copy (1981); Carnivàle (2003); Cold Case (2005); Die Schauspielerin (1988); Dolemite Is My Name (2019); En kvinnas huvud (1997); Eric Clapton: Life in 12 Bars (2017); Fast Color (2018); FDR (1982); Great Performances (2003); History Lessons (2000); Idlewild (2006); It's Black Entertainment (2002); Jailhouse Blues (1929); Jazz (2001); Jazz Britannia (2005); Jimmy's Hall (2014); Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004); La route du blues (2003); Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill (2016); Lady Day: The Many Faces of Billie Holiday (1990); Les Temps Modernes (2016); Lucky Lady (1975); Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries (2015); Moths (2010); Mysteries of the Abandoned: Hidden America (2023); Nights in Rodanthe (2008); Nun (2017); ReMastered: The Two Killings of Sam Cooke (2019); Rich and Famous (1981); 'Round Midnight (1986); Sanford and Son (1975); Shining Girls (2022); Sing Sing Thanksgiving (1973); Sophie and the Rising Sun (2016); Soul Power! (2013); Sound of Metal (2019); Sound of Song (2015); St. Louis Blues (1929); Sympathy for the Devil (1972); Tales from the Loop (2020); That's Black Entertainment (1990); The Age of Ballyhoo (1973); The Blues (2003); The Butcher's Wife (1991); The Century: America's Time (1999); The Goldfinch (2019); The Hour (2011); The Ladies Sing the Blues (1989); The Originals (2015); The Shuroo Process (2021); The Subject Is Jazz (1958); The United States vs. Billie Holiday (2021); Water for Elephants (2011); Z: The Beginning of Everything (2017).

Born on this day – Mance Lipscomb:

Mance Lipscomb

Blues singer

Guitarist

April 9, 1895 – January 30, 1976

Credits:

Albums:

Captain, Captain! (1996); Mama Don't Allow (1996); Navasota (2021); So Different Blues (1993); Texas Sharecropper and Songster (1960); Texas Songster: Volume 2 (1964); Trouble in Mind (1969); Vol. 4 (1967); Vol. 5: Texas Blues and 3 Other Songs (1970); Volume 6 (1974).

Movies and television:

A Well-Spent Life (1971); Blues Under the Skin (1973); Singin' the Yodeling Blues (1983); The Blues Accordin' to Lightnin' Hopkins (1970); The Life and Times of the Red Dog Saloon (1996).

Book:

I Say Me for a Parable: The Oral Autobiography of Mance Lipscomb, Texas Bluesman (1993).

Born on this day – Muddy Waters:

Muddy Waters

Blues singer

Musician

April 4, 1913 – April 30, 1983

Born on this day – Lucille Bogan:

Lucille Bogan

Blues singer

Songwriter

April 1, 1897 – August 10, 1948

Credits:

Albums:

1930s Blues Classics (2010); As Bessie Jackson: Reckless Woman 1927-1935 (Blues Collection Historic Recordings) [feat. Walter Roland] (2006); Complete Recorded Works, Volume 2: March 1930 to 20 July 1933 (1994); Jazz Son's (2022); Lucille Bogan & Walter Roland (1927-1935) (1992); Lucille Bogan (1923-1935) (1989); Lucille Bogan (Bessie Jackson) Vol. 1 [1923-1930] (1993); Lucille Bogan (Bessie Jackson) Vol. 2 [1930-1933] (1993); Lucille Bogan (Bessie Jackson) Vol. 3 (1934-1935) (2005); Outspoken (2015); Reckless Woman (2013); Reckless Woman: 1927-1935 (2000); Shave 'Em Dry: The Best of Lucille Bogan (2004).

Movies and television:

Bessie (2015); Cover Your Ears (2023); Fried Green Tomatoes (1991); Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers (1980); History of Swear Words (2021); No Vacancy (1999); The Blues (2003); The Cotton Club (1984).

Born on this day – Etta Baker:

Etta Baker

Blues singer

Guitarist

Banjoist

March 31, 1913 – September 23, 2006

Albums:

Banjo (2009); Carolina Breakdown (2005); Etta Baker with Taj Mahal (2004); Instrumental Music from the Southern Appalachians (1956); Knoxville Rag, with Kenny Wayne Shepherd (2006); One-Dime Blues (1991); Railroad Bill (1999); Railroad Bill (2015); The North Carolina Banjo Collection (1998).

Born on this day – Sonny Boy Williamson:

Sonny Boy Williamson

Blues singer

Harmonicist

Songwriter

March 30, 1914 – June 1, 1948

Credits:

Music:

A Portrait in Blues (1963); Baby Let Me Come Back Home / November Boogie / All Nite Boogie / Leavin Blues (1966); Blues Classics by The Original Sonny Boy Williamson (1965); Born Blind / Ninety-Nine (1958); Bring It On Home / Down Child (1965); Bummer Road (1969); Bye Bye Bird / Help Me (1963); Come On Back Home / Stop Crying (1951); Cool, Cool Blues / Do It if You Wanta (1951); Crazy ‘Bout You, Baby / Eyesight to the Blind (1951); Cross My Heart / Dissatisfied (1958); Don’t Send Me No Flowers (1968); Don’t Start Me Talkin’/ All My Love in Vain (1955); Down and Out Blues (1959); Empty Bedroom / From the Bottom (1955); Fattening Frogs for Snakes / I Don’t Know (1957); From the Bottom / Empty Bedroom; Gettin’ Out of Town / She Brought Life Back to the Dead (1954); Going in Your Direction / Red Hot Kisses (1954); I Cross My Heart / West Memphis Blues (1954); In Memoriam (1965); Keep It to Yourself / The Key (To Your Door) (1956); King Biscuit Time (1989); Let Me Explain / Your Imagination (1956); Let Your Conscience Be Your Guide / Unseeing Eye (1959); Mighty Long Time / Nine Below Zero (1951); More Real Folk Blues (1966); Mr. Downchild / Stop Now Baby (1954); My Younger Days / I Want You Close to Me (1964); No Nights by Myself / Boppin’ with Sonny (1956); One Way Out / Nine Below Zero (1962); Pontiac Blues / Sonny Boy’s Christmas Blues (1951); Rock Generation Vol. 4 with the Animals (1973); Sonny Boy Williamson and Memphis Slim (1964); Sonny Boy Williamson and the Yardbirds (1966); Stop Right Now / The Hunt (1961); Temperature 110 / Lonesome Cabin (1960); The Blues of Sonny Boy Williamson (1963); The Goat / It’s Sad to Be Alone (1960); The Hunt / Little Village (1961); The Real Folk Blues (1966); This Is My Story (1972); Too Close Together / Cat Hop (1953); Trust My Baby / Too Close Together (1960); Trying to Get Back on My Feet / Decoration Day (1963); Your Funeral and My Trial / Wake Up Baby (1958).

Movies and television:

Af jazzens billedbog (1963); Almost Famous (2000); American Gangster (2007); American Made (2017); Animal House of Blues: 33.3 Special Edition (2018); Arena (1985); Barfly (1987); Blues Brothers 2000 (1998); Blues Odyssey (2003); Bluesland: A Portrait in American Music (1993); Charming the Hearts of Men (2021); Deadwood (2004); Dogfight (1991); Eric Clapton: Life in 12 Bars (2017); Frogs for Snakes (1998); Fuel (2008); Godfather of Harlem (2019); Green Book (2018); Groupies (1970); Homicide: Life on the Street (1994); Hullabaloo! (1963–1964); Jane B. for Agnes V. (1988); Johnny Winter And: Live in Copenhagen (1971); Jonny Lang Live at Montreux 1999 (1999); Listening to You: The Who at the Isle of Wight 1970 (1998); Long John Baldry: In the Shadow of the Blues (2000); Long Strange Trip (2017); Lords of Dogtown (2005); Mae Mercer & Sonny Boy Williamson: Careless Love (1965); Mulholland Drive (2001); My Kinda People (2003); Mysteries of the Abandoned: Hidden America (2023); On Any Saturday (2006); Once Were Brothers (2019); Private Practice (2007); Ready, Steady, Go! (1965); Secondhand Lions (2003); Tempo (1964); The American Folk Blues Festival 1962-1966 - Volume 1 (2003); The American Folk Blues Festival 1962-1966 - Volume 2 (2003); The Beat Room (1964); The Blues (2003); The Departed (2006); The Dukes of Hazzard (2005); The Ed Sullivan Show (1950); The Fall (2013); The Funeral (1996); The Howlin' Wolf Story (2003); The Who: The Making of Tommy (2013); Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead (1995); Tommy (1975); Wetlands Preserved: The Story of an Activist Nightclub (2008); Where Has Poor Mickey Gone? (1964); Who Shot Pat? (1989).

Born on this day – Mary Johnson:

Mary Johnson

Blues singer

Accordionist

Songwriter

March 29, 1898 – July 20, 1983

Born on this day – Leroy Carr:

Leroy Carr

Blues singer

Songwriter

Pianist

March 27, 1904 – April 29, 1935

Credits:

Albums:

(1930-1958) Remaining Titles & Alternate Takes (1989); A City Man (2015); A Summer Sky Shines (2015); ABC Of The Blues Vol 7 (2010); American Blues Legend (2006); Another Side of Leroy Carr (2023); Bad Liquor Blues (2020); Blues Before Sunrise (1960); Complete Recorded Works in Chronological Order, Volume 4: 1932–1934 (1992); Florida (2018); Hard Time Blues (2006); Hurry Down Sunshine (1995); I Keep the Blues (2018); It's Just a Rag! The Mighty Piano of Leroy Carr (2020); Leroy Carr Maestro (2015); Leroy Carr Sings Vintage Blues (2013); Leroy Carr Vol. 1 (1928-1929) (2005); Leroy Carr Vol. 2 (1929-1930) (2005); Leroy Carr Vol. 3 (1930-1932) (2005); Leroy Carr Vol. 4 (1932-1934) (2005); Leroy Carr Vol. 5 (1934) (2005); Leroy Carr Vol. 6 (1934-1935) (2005); Let's Spend an Evening with Leroy Carr (2020); Midnight Hour Blues (2021); Mr. Scrapper's Blues (1962); Naptown Blues 1929-1934 (1983); Presenting Leroy Carr (1928); Prison Bound Blues (2004); Rocks In My Bed (2016); Tennessee Bluesman (2020); The Blues Collective -Leroy Carr and Scrapper Blackwell (2023); The Blues of Leroy Carr 2011); The Essential (2002); The Essential Leroy Carr (2014); The Piano Blues 1930-1935 (2014); The Piano Blues Vol. 2: 1929-1935 (2014); Tonight in Time (2015); Volume 1: "How Long Has That Evening Train Been Gone", CD A (2008); Volume 1: "How Long Has That Evening Train Been Gone", CD B (2008); Volume 1: "How Long Has That Evening Train Been Gone", CD C (2008); Volume 1: "How Long Has That Evening Train Been Gone", CD D (2008); When The Sun Goes Down 1934-1941 (2011); Whiskey Is My Habit, Good Women Is All I Crave: The Best Of Leroy Carr (2004).

Songs:

Alabama Women Blues; Barrel House Woman; Blues Before Sunrise; Christmas in Jail - Ain't That a Pain; Don't Start No Stuff; E Blues; Four Day Rider; George Street Blues; Goin' Where the Monon Crosses the Yellow Dog; How Long - How Long Blues; How Long Has That Evening Train Been Gone; Kokomo Blues; Let's Disagree; Little Boy Blue; Low Down Dog Blues; Mean Mistreater Mama No. 2; Midnight Hour Blues; My Own Lonesome Blues; Naptown Blues; Papa's on the House Top; Penal Farm Blues; Prison Bound Blues; Shady Lane; Six Cold Feet in the Ground; Six Cold Feet of Ground; Sloppy Drunk Blues; Straight Alky Blues, Pt. 1; Straight Alky Blues, Pt. 2; Suicide Blues; That's All Right for You; Trouble Blues, Part 2; When the Sun Goes Down.

Born on this day – Curley Weaver:

Curley Weaver

Blues singer

Guitarist

March 25, 1906 – September 20, 1962

Track listings on pictured CD: Curly Weaver The Complete Recorded Works 1933–1935 in Chronological Order, including music with The Georgia Browns:

No No Blues; Leg Iron Blues; Some Cold Rainy Day; Tippin’ Tom; Birmingham Gambler; Tampa Street; Decatur Street 81; Next Door Man (Take 1); Next Door Man (Take 2); It Must Have Been Her; Who Stole de Lock?; Joker Man; You Was Born to Die; Dirty Mistreater; Black Woman; City Cell Blues; Empty Room Blues; Tricks Ain’t Walking No More; Sometime Mama; Oh Lawdy Mama; Two Faced Woman; Early Morning Blues; Fried Pie Blues.

Born on this day – Son House:

Son House

Blues singer

Guitarist

March 21, 1902 – October 19, 1988

Credits:

Albums:

Been Here and Gone (2003); Country Farm Blues (2010); Death Letter (1998); Delta Blues (1991); Delta Blues and Spirituals (1995); Essential Blues Masters (2009); Father of the Delta Blues: The Complete 1965 Sessions (1992); Feel Like Going Home - A Film By Martin Scorsese (2003); Forever On My Mind (2022); Got the Blues (2012); Grinnin’ in Your Face (2015); J.D. Short and Son House: Blues from the Mississippi Delta (1963); John The Revelator (Live Radio Broadcast) (2017); King Of The Delta Blues (2006); Legends of Country Blues (CD B) (2006); Les Pionniers Du Blues, Vol. 11: Son House (2019); Live at Oberlin College (Live) (2018); Live At Oberlin College, April 15, 1965 (2018); Live... (2013); Low Down Dirty Dog Blues (2000); Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues: Son House (2003); Milestones of a Legend - Delta Blues, Vol. 3 (2017); New York Central (2007); Rare Country Farm Blues (2017); Revisited (2002); Son House - At Home - Rochester 1969 (2005); Son House in Seattle 1968 (2018); Son House Library of Congress Recordings 1941-1942 (2014); Son House Live At The Gaslight Cafe Jan 3rd 1965 (2000); Son House Revisited Vol. 1 (2006); Son House Selected Favorites Volume 2 (2006); Special Rider (2000); The 1930-42 Mississippi and Wisconsin Recordings (2021); The Classic Years (2012); The Complete Library Of Congress Sessions, 1941-1942 (Hd Remastered Edition, Doxy Collection) (1990); The Delta Blues Of Son House (2003); Walking blues (2021 Remastered Version) (2022); Wonderful Soundtrack (2016).

Movies and television:

All You Need Is Love (1977); American Epic (2017); B.B. King: The Life of Riley (2012); Better Things (2017); Black Snake Moan (2006); Blues Brothers 2000 (1998); Blues Like Showers of Rain (1994); Blues Masters (1999); Blues Odyssey (2003); Bluesland: A Portrait in American Music (1993); Cold Case (2006); Devil Got My Woman: Blues at Newport 1966 (1996); Fargo (2017); Fear the Walking Dead (2019); Festival (1967); Goliath (2016); Hard Target (1993); In the Aisles (2018); It Might Get Loud (2008); King of Stage: The Woodie King Jr. Story (2018); Later... With Jools Holland (2009); On the Road (2012); ReMastered: Devil at the Crossroads (2019); Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked The World (2017); Supernatural (2006); The American Folk Blues Festival 1962-1969 - Volume 3 (2004); The Blues (2003); The Blues (2003); The Howlin’ Wolf Story (2003); The Originals (2014); The Perfect Age of Rock ‘n’ Roll (2009); The Search for Robert Johnson (1992); The White Stripes Under Great White Northern Lights (2009); True Detective (2019); Two Trains Runnin’ (2016); Walk on By: The Story of Popular Song (2001); When You Comin’ Back, Red Ryder? (1979); White Stripes: Under Blackpool Lights (2004).

Born on this day – Alec Seward:

Alec Seward

Blues singer

Guitarist

Songwriter

March 16, 1901 – May 11, 1972

Credits:

Albums:

Creepin’ Blues (1965); Late One Saturday Evening (1996); The Back Porch Boys (2002).

Songs:

Be Kind Blues; Big Hip Mama; Big Hip Mamma; Blues All Around My Head; Blues All Around My Head #2; C.C. Rider; Cousin John; Creepin’ Blues; Early Morning Blues; Evil Woman Blues; Feel So Good; Feels so Good; Friday the Thirteenth Blues; Goin’ Back Home; Goin’ Down Slow; Her Ways Are so Sweet; Hide Me In Thy Bosom; I Made A Mistake In Life; I Wish I’d Listened; It’s My Desire; Late Evening Blues; Late One Saturday Evening; Let A Good Thing Do; Little Annie Blues; Me and My Baby; Piney Woods; Risin’ Sun Shine On; Rock Me Darlin’; Sorry Woman Blues; Sweet Woman; Trouble in Mind; What Has Annie Got.

Born on this day – Clara Smith:

Clara Smith

Blues singer

March 13, 1894 – February 2, 1935

Credits:

Ain't Nothin' Cookin' What You're Smellin' / Separation Blues (1926); All Night Blues / Play It (Do It a Long Time Papa) (1923); Broken Busted Blues / Court House Blues with Louis Armstrong; Cheatin' Daddy / You Don't Know Who's Shakin' Your Tree (1927); Court House Blues / The L & N Blues (1926); Don't Never Tell Nobody / Waitin' for the Evenin' Mail (1923); Ease It / Percolatin' Blues (1927); Far Away Blues / I'm Going Back to My Used to Be (1923); For Sale / You Dirty Dog (1931); Freight Train Blues / Done Sold My Soul to the Devil (And My Heart's Done Turned to Stone) (1924); Frosty Mornin' Blues / Easy Come Easy Go Blues; Gin Mill Blues / Got My Mind on That Thing (1929); Good Looking Papa Blues / Don't Advertise Your Man (1924); He's Mine, All Mine / Steel Drivin' Sam (1925); How'm I Doin' / Whip It to a Jelly (1926); I Got Everything A Woman Needs / Every Woman's Blues (1923); I Never Miss the Sunshine (I'm So Used to the Rain) / Awful Moanin' Blues (1923); I'm Gonna Tear Your Playhouse Down / You Don't Know My Mind (1924); Irresistible Blues / I Want My Sweet Daddy Now (1923); It's Tight Like That / Daddy Don't Put That Thing on Me Blues (1929); Jelly Look What You Done Done / It's All Coming Home to You (1928); Kansas City Man Blues / Uncle Sam Blues (1924); Kind Lovin' Blues / Down South Blues (1923); Livin' Humble / Get on Board (1927); Mean Papa Turn in Your Key / Back Woods Blues (1924); My Good for Nuthin' Man / When I Steps Out (1925); Nobody Knows the Way I Feel Dis Mornin' / If You Only Knowed (1925); Nobody's Blues but Mine / My Man Blues (1925); Oh! Mister Mitchell / Where Is My Man (1930); Ol' Sam Tages / Unemployed Papa-Charity Workin' Mama (1931); Papa I Don't Need You Now / Tired of the Way You Do (1929); San Francisco Blues / Chain Gang Blues (1924); Shipwrecked Blues / My John Blues; Steamboat Man Blues / Sobbin' Sister Blues (1928); That's Why The Undertakers Are Busy Today / Black Woman's Blues (1927); The Basement Blues / Mama's Gone, Good Bye (1924); The Market Street Blues / It Takes the Lawd (To Tell What's on My Mind) (1925); Troublesome Blues / You Can't Get It Now (1927); Wanna Go Home / Ain't Got Nobody to Grind My Coffee (1928); West Indies Blues / The Clearing House Blues (1924).